If you’re as tired of the SEC’s dominance as you are the Bowl Championship Series’ ridiculousness, you’ll only have to put up with one of them for another two years.

Yes, the BCS system goes away after the 2013 season. The SEC? It’s your basic consistent yearly threat, like death and taxes. When this season’s first BCS standings are announced Sunday at 6:30 p.m., the SEC will be all over it like stains on a barbecue menu.

In fact, if South Carolina wins Saturday at Louisiana State, the Gamecocks likely will leapfrog idle Oregon into the No. 2 slot behind defending national champion Alabama. Lurking not far behind will be Florida, jacked up by a defense almost as maniacal as its head coach.

After the Harris Interactive Poll released its first rankings Sunday, the only missing element in the BCS formula is one of six computers rankings. So, if the BCS rankings were released Friday, according to ESPN.com, the top 10 would look like this: 1. Alabama, .941; 2. Oregon, .909; 3. South Carolina, .904; 4. West Virginia, .849; 5. Florida, .846; 6. Notre Dame, .828; 7. Kansas State, .610; 8. LSU, .610; 9. Oregon State, .593; 10. Georgia, .557.

Little is achieved by being in the top two with half the season left, but it’s good to get inside position as the season progresses. The problem with the SEC is it eats its own. Even if South Carolina reaches No. 2 on Sunday and runs the table — that’s not likely, with games left at Florida and Clemson — it probably will have to beat Alabama in the SEC title game to play in the BCS title game.

Meanwhile, the computers have Florida at No. 1. If the Gators get any love from the pollsters as they grind through the SEC’s death march, they could get into that No. 2 slot before facing Alabama.

With the SEC set to knock one of its own out of the BCS title game, Oregon is not a sitting duck. The computers don’t like Oregon — they’re blind to margins of victory over the Tennessee Techs of the world — but pollsters do like Oregon.

If the Ducks keep putting up pinball-machine numbers against the likes of Arizona State next Thursday, at USC, Stanford and at Oregon State, they’ll be on their way to that No. 2 BCS slot. They no doubt will get to play the Pac-12 title game in Eugene.

The SEC should send a year’s supply of barbecue and Oregon a truck full of smoked salmon to Raleigh, N.C.

North Carolina State’s upset of Florida State last weekend knocked the ACC out of the BCS picture. Last week, the Seminoles were No. 4 in the USA Today coaches poll, the other poll used in the BCS formula. With a relatively weak ACC slate and a cherry at season’s end represented by a home date with Florida, Florida State was in prime position to go unbeaten. The loss to North Carolina State dropped FSU to No. 11 in the coaches poll, reducing the ACC season to a regional story not reaching past the Appalachian Trail.

You can bet people in the Iron Belt on Sunday will be tuned into “Looney Tunes” instead of the BCS standings show. The Big Ten doesn’t have a single team ranked in the coaches or Harris polls, which means good cannon fodder for the rest of us and salvation for the Mountain West and WAC.

Boise State can play in another BCS bowl if it finishes in the final BCS top 16 and ahead of the highest-ranked team from one of the six “power” automatic-qualifying conferences. While using “power” and “Big Ten” in the same sentence this season is nearly libelous, the league’s ineptitude provides a good race for the one available BCS bowl berth between Boise State and the sport’s new scruffy underdog, Louisiana Tech.

The Bulldogs are 5-0 and No. 24 in the coaches poll. They can leapfrog Boise State (22nd in the coaches poll) if they beat Texas A&M on Saturday.

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